DCS Corporation received three U.S. Army Task Orders to support sensors and night vision work

Under their joint venture (DMJV), DCS and Millennium Corporation, announced it received three competitively awarded task orders to support U.S. Army sensors and night vision work. Work on the task orders will be performed under the Warrior Enabling Broad Sensors (WEBS) contract and is valued at approximately $21 million.

Comtech Telecommunications to Supply U.S. Army with Hardware worth $8.8 Million

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its first quarter of fiscal 2017, Comtech's Command & Control Technologies Group, which is part of its Government Solutions segment, received an additional funded order of $8.8 million for its Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems.

Elbit Systems from Israel unveils new ReDrone system to protect closed air spaces

Elbit Systems will reveal at the Israel HLS & Cyber Conference, taking place this week in Tel Aviv, Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT Elisra’s ReDrone system, a unique solution for protection of closed air spaces, national infrastructures and other critical areas against hostile drones penetrating the protected perimeter.

L-3 Communications has been awarded a $208 million contract to modernize Australian Army

L-3 Communications announced on Monday 14, November that it has been awarded a contract totaling $208 million by the Australian Defence Force (ADF), under the LAND 53 Phase 1BR program, to deliver soldier modernization technology, including specialized night vision equipment, to the Australian Army. The five-year contract was awarded through a competitive bid process that included extensive ADF field testing. Deliveries are expected to occur between May 2017 and May 2021.

The Road to High Readiness (RTHR) is being paved in Petawawa this month with live fire combined arms training. Exercise STORMING BEAR, which began on 24 October and will run until 21 November, will see Task Force Tomahawk units completing complex, combined arms and multi-element live fire ranges in the Petawawa training area as they achieve level 4 Company and level 5 Battlegroup standards. (Source Canadian army - By Lieutenant Dan Mazurek, Task Force Tomahawk Public Affairs Officer)

From 4th to 14th October, MBDA Deutschland successfully conducted tests of a new high-energy laser effector at a military training facility on Germany’s North Sea coast, marking the next step in the progression from technology to product. In this series of trials, the system was tested under real environmental conditions for the first time.

Iran and Russia began negotiating on the supply of $10 billion worth of weapons and hardware to Tehran following the successful delivery of Russia’s S-300 air defense missile systems to the country in October, the Russian media reported on Monday.

Israel would have sold Iron Dome air defense missile system to Azerbaijan

Israel would have sold Iron Dome air defense missile system to Azerbaijan according a country media. A battery of Iron Dome is ready to be handed over to the Azerbaijan military. In October 2016, it was announced that Israel will deliver six batteries of Iron Dome to Azerbaijan.

Tigr armored cars delivered to Russian Special Forces in Pskov - Western Military District

A batch of Tigr armored cars in a special variant has been delivered to the Western Military District’s Special Forces large unit stationed in Pskov, according to Igor Muginov, the district’s press office chief.

A new silo robotic system has successfully passed Russian military trials. The system was developed to boost the security of stationary military sites and is set to be deployed to guard the underground silos of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (SMF).

Next generation of U.S. army combat vehicles will feature laser weapon system

The U.S. Army's next-generation combat vehicle will probably run on alternative energy sources and feature directed-energy laser weapons, advanced-composite armor and an active protection system, according military experts.

Joint military exercise Active Shield for U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers in Japan

U.S. Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) personnel conducted exercise Active Shield at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Nov. 8-11, 2016. Active Shield is an annual exercise incorporating the air station’s defense posture to test the abilities of U.S. and Japanese forces to work alongside each other to protect and defend MCAS Iwakuni and other U.S. assets in the region.

Russian airborne troops use modern military equipment during Slavic Brotherhood 2016 in Serbia

The military equipment and armoured being used by Russian Airborne Force units during the Slavic Brotherhood 2016 exercise is fully suitable for accomplishing tasks assigned to Serbian special operation forces, Special Brigade Commander Brigadier General Zoran Velickovic said.

Polaris Defense, a division of Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII), has received an order from the United States Marine Corps to deliver 144 four-seat diesel MRZR™ vehicles as part of the utility task vehicle (UTV) program, which will provide MRZR-D4s to each of the Marine Corps’ active-component infantry regiments. The contract also includes spare parts blocks in support of the vehicles.

U.S. Army 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry Division has begun movement to Europe

The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, has begun its movement to Europe, loading the first trains this week that will send a heavy brigade’s worth of tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and other equipment overseas in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) first modernized Tactical Missile System (TACMS) missile completed a successful first flight test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The missile was launched from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launcher at a target area more than 130 kilometers away, precisely hitting the target with a proximity sensor-enabled detonation. All test objectives were achieved.

Czech army needs to replace Soviet-made SA-6 Gainful 2K12 with new air defense missile system

Czech Republic has launched a new program to purchase new medium-range air defense missile systems to replace old Soviet-made 2K12 Kub (SA-6 Gainful). According DefenseNews website five international companies including Lockheed Martin, MBDA, Kongsberg, Rafael and Diehl have submitted offers to supply medium-range air defense systems to the Czech Ministry of Defense.

Angola has ordered a large batch of KAMAZ and Ural military truck from Russia

Angola`s board service has ordered a large batch of KAMAZ and Ural trucks from Russia, the Izvestia newspaper said. The aforementioned batch includes both utility trucks and vehicles equipped with armoured capsule.

Russia’s Strategic Missile Force will fully switch to digital data transmission technologies by 2020 to make command and control more effective and improve decision-making quality, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.

Turkey could develop jointly with Russia new national air defense missile system

Turkey is ready to discuss possible cooperation in the development of a national missile defense system with all the countries concerned, including Russia, Turkey's Undersecretary for Defense Industries Ismail Demir said Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

U.S. Army is testing new Oshkosh JLTV Joint Light Tactical Vehicle at Aberdeen Proving Ground

U.S. army is testing the new Oshkosh JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle) at Aberdeen Proving Ground that will replace the Humvee which is in service since many years in the American armed forces. The Humvee is the standard light tactical vehicle of U.S. Army but it proved vulnerable during Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts to roadside bombs.

China and Russia have signed contract for the delivery of 6 battalions of S-400 air defense systems

Russia and China reportedly signed the contract on the delivery of up to six battalions of S-400 systems (NATO reporting name SA-21 Growler) to China in April last year. The details of the contract have not been disclosed.

Russia to sign more than 20 contracts in 2016 for the delivery of military equipment to Belarus

More than 20 contracts for the delivery and upgrade of military hardware have been signed between Russia and Belarus in 2016 and several dozen agreements are currently being discussed, Belarusian Defense Minister Lieutenant-General Andrei Ravkov said.

India`s Ministry of Defense (MoD) is planning to purchase 464 Russian-originated T-90MS main battle tanks (MBT) developed by the Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) scientific-production corporation, according to the Mail Online India newspaper (a subsidiary of the British Daily Mail).

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that during its first quarter of fiscal 2017, its Orlando, Florida-based subsidiary, Comtech Systems, Inc., which is part of Comtech's Government Solutions segment, received a $2.2 million contract from the Swedish Defense Material Administration (FMV) to supply it with deployable troposcatter systems for the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF).

The U.S. Army has selected Ceradyne, Inc., a 3M company, as the awardee for two low-rate initial production (LRIP) contracts for next-generation helmet systems and hard body armor inserts as part of the Integrated Head Protection System (IHPS) and Vital Torso Protection (VTP) – Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts (ESAPI) components of the Soldier Protection System (SPS).

More than 5,000 Ratnik combat outfits have arrived for Russia’s Strategic Missile Force in 2016, Head of the Team of the Strategic Missile Force’s Combat Training Department Colonel Yevgeny Shchelkanov said in an interview with Echo Moskvy radio station.

CACI International awarded by JIDO a $1.7 billion contract for counter-IED work

CACI International a US-based company has been awarded a $1.7 billion contract to provide the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) with deployable analytical operations, intelligence, and training services to support JIDO’s Focused Support/Decisive Effort (FS/DE) mission anywhere in the world.

Russia: New CBRN reconnaissance vehicles to be fielded with Western Military District

A chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense large unit stationed in the Western Military District will have received over 20 sophisticated RKhM-6 CBRN reconnaissance vehicles before year-end, the district’s spokesman, Colonel Igor Muginov, has told journalists.